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Boston Spa

Boston Spa is a village and civil parish in the Leeds Metropolitan District in West Yorkshire, England.

Boston Spa
Boston Spa · Original uploader was Cornischong at lb.wikipedia (Public domain)
The place

Boston Spa is a village and civil parish in the Leeds Metropolitan District in West Yorkshire, England. Situated 3 miles (5 km) south of Wetherby, Boston Spa is on the south bank of the River Wharfe across from Thorp Arch. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 4,006 rising to 4,079 in the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Boston Spa

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    St James' Parish Church, Wetherby

    St James' Parish Church is an Anglican parish church serving the parish of Wetherby with Linton in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, England.

    3.7 km · church in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St. Oswald's Church, Collingham, West Yorkshire

    St Oswald's Church is an active Anglican church in Collingham, West Yorkshire, England. It is in the Harrogate deanery and Diocese of Leeds.

    3.8 km · church in Leeds, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    All Saints' Church, Thorp Arch, West Yorkshire

    All Saints' Church in Thorp Arch, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the Archdeaconry of York and the Diocese of York.

    1.1 km · church in Thorp Arch, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wetherby Bridge

    Wetherby Bridge is a scheduled monument and Grade II-listed bridge over the River Wharfe in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, dating from the 13th century. The bridge connects Micklethwaite on the south bank to the town centre on the north.

    3.4 km · bridge in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Thorp Arch Bridge

    Thorp Arch Bridge is a stone arch bridge opened in 1770 across the River Wharfe linking the West Yorkshire villages of Boston Spa on the southbank and Thorp Arch on the north.

    500 m · bridge in Thorp Arch, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Wetherby Town Hall

    Wetherby Town Hall is a community building in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, England. The town hall no longer plays a major civic function but provides an office which is used by Wetherby Town Council and facilities for local groups and events.

    3.6 km · community building in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Andrew, Newton Kyme

    St Andrew's Church is the parish church of Newton Kyme, a village west of Tadcaster, in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was originally built in the 12th century, with the nave, western part of the chancel, and lower part of the tower surviving from this date.

    3.8 km · church in Newton Kyme, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Peter

    The Church of St. Peter in Walton, near Wetherby in West Yorkshire, England, is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of York and the Diocese of York.

    2.6 km · church in Walton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Thorp Arch Trading Estate

    Thorp Arch Trading Estate is a trading estate, with both industrial and retail space, 3 miles south-east of Wetherby in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. The estate occupies the major part of the site of a former Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Thorp Arch, in the parishes of Thorp Arch and Walton.

    2.4 km · industrial park in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St. Mary the Virgin Church, Boston Spa

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of York and the Diocese of York. It is a Grade II listed building.

    300 m · church in Boston Spa, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Boston Spa

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 21 km · Manchester (MAN), 87 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 117 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Boston Spa
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–12
  • Liverpool → Boston Spa
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £13–17
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Boston Spa
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Boston Spa

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Boston Spa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextFor day trips use the bus or Park & Ride.

From Wikivoyage: Tadcaster, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    306 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    339 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    358 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    367 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    377 km

If you know how people move in Boston Spa – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Boston Spa

Boston Spa is 18 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Wetherbytown in West Yorkshire, UK3.4 km
  • Thorp Archvillage and civil parish in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK1.8 km
  • Cliffordvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England1.2 km
  • Waltonvillage and civil parish in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK2.7 km
  • Bramhamvillage in West Yorkshire, UK2.7 km
  • Bramham cum Oglethorpecivil parish in West Yorkshire, England2.6 km